Is this a sign of hardware failure?

[Infinite]

Sometimes when I boot into Windows, I am sometimes greeted with white lines across the screen (usually when attempting to chkdsk, etc). This remains and Windows does not boot, I have to either reboot or use a restore point if necessary.

Usually when I bootup, there are 6 or so white dashes but these are fine and Windows continues to boot.

Any suggestions?

Screenshots of 'corrupted' boot dashes

 

[TVeblen]

From what you've said it could be the video card or it'd driver. You could start by clean re-installing the graphics driver.

Do this: go to the START menu and type "problem" in the search box. Then click on "view solutions to problems". What do you find there?

 

[Eblim]

Do you have an adapter attached between a VGA cord and your graphics card port? It may be your adapter's compatibility if it's a 3rd party. That would be best-case-scenario as adapters are significantly cheaper than other computer hardware!

 

[Infinite]

From what you've said it could be the video card or it'd driver. You could start by clean re-installing the graphics driver.

I looked for a driver and could not find one, I recently installed CCC but the issue happened before that.

Do this: go to the START menu and type "problem" in the search box. Then click on "view solutions to problems". What do you find there?

Do you have an adapter attached between a VGA cord and your graphics card port? It may be your adapter's compatibility if it's a 3rd party. That would be best-case-scenario as adapters are significantly cheaper than other computer hardware!

There's a DVI to VGA adapter as my monitor does not support it, I took some pictures as examples:

 

[Britton30]

Some hardware tests to run.

Graphics card test:
Video Card Stress Test with Furmark ​

Hard drive(s)test(s):

Pick one for your HDD brand or use Seatools.
7 Free Hard Drive Testing Software Tools​

RAM (memory) test:

This will require memtest on a bootable CD or USB stick.
RAM - Test with Memtest86+​

 

[Infinite]

Some hardware tests to run.

Graphics card test:
Video Card Stress Test with Furmark​

Hard drive(s)test(s):

Pick one for your HDD brand or use Seatools.
7 Free Hard Drive Testing Software Tools​

RAM (memory) test:

This will require memtest on a bootable CD or USB stick.
RAM - Test with Memtest86+​

memtest86: left it on overnight, for 10 passes and it found no errors.

Burn test:


Maxed at 93

3 seconds before I took the screenshot the screen went blank for 5 seconds, and then came back on, my response was to take a screenshot and stop the test.

Do you think anything could be wrong?

Seatools HD test
Was a bit confused on what test to run and what to configure, is there any recommended settings or tutorial?

S.M.A.R.T Check - Both Drives Passed
Short Drive Self Check - Both Drives Passed
Short Generic - Both Drives Passed

 

[cyclic]

It looks to me just a driver initialization thing.
I would suggest update or downdate the driver see if there is any effect. I have seen this quite often on various builds\systems and don't consider it a worry.

At that stage of the boot it would be the BIOS inbuilt driver, have a look if there is an update, but I wouldn't panic personally.

 

[Infinite]

It looks to me just a driver initialization thing.
I would suggest update or downdate the driver see if there is any effect. I have seen this quite often on various builds\systems and don't consider it a worry.

At that stage of the boot it would be the BIOS inbuilt driver, have a look if there is an update, but I wouldn't panic personally.

My BIOS:


I don't want to use the wrong one as it may brick my system :S.

 

[Mark Phelps]

I would advise you against doing a BIOS update. Any artifact like this that is seen both in POST and in the Windows desktop is more likely to be a monitor problem than a BIOS problem. I can see that your BIOS is not current, but that's to be expected as manufacturers don't do BIOS upgrades for very long until a new machine comes out. I mistakenly did a BIOS update on a Gigabyte motherboard a while back, and even though it finished properly, had I not gone to the trouble to back off the old BIOS in a restorable way, I would have lost the use of my PC. My general perspective is that, unless you know for sure that a BIOS update will fix your problem, AND you have a way both to save off the current BIOS and restore it, then do NOT do a BIOS update.